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Original Title: Musashi: The Dream Of The Last Samurai

Genge: Animation,Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An animated chronicle of the life of legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645).
This particular Mushashi (there was Inagaki's classic trilogy of the Fifties, starring Toshiro Mifune) is primarily a lecture about the famous swordsman of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Japan. There's much more screen time given in this anime film to a funny little old man addressing us and referring to historical texts, than to dashing sequences of Mushashi himself. Hence the visuals are not very exciting for the most part.

We learn that Mushashi, who ended up as a teacher and devote of Zen and other aristocratic arts such as the tea ceremony and archery, was a man of humble origins who won over sixty duels when very young and also fought in large battles with success, thus garnering such fame as a swordsman that he sought aristocratic status, not so much for money but to pursue his calling as a martial artist. He wanted to be given a corps of horsemen, unable personally to afford even a single horse for himself. He wanted to develop swordsmanship techniques for fighting on horseback, which our lecturer suggests connects him with the knights in armor of the West. His attempts to achieve higher rank seem to have largely failed, bu he still was enormously respected and his offspring ga